Psych albums
Say Psych: Album Review: The Janitors – 15 Years of Fuzz and Folköl
15 years ago, a night of heavy drinking resulted in the formation of The Janitors – a creative project that has been the centre of founding members Jonas and Henrik’s lives ever since. Over that time five drummers, eight percussionists and three bass players have passed through The Janitors grinder. This has ultimately resulted in …
Say Psych: Album Review: The Underground Youth – Montage Images of Lust & Fear
On 29 March, Berlin via Manchester outfit The Underground Youth will be releasing their ninth album, Montage Images of Lust & Fear, on Fuzz Club Records and has been deemed as their most sincere work in an extensive, decade-long discography from which they’ve picked up a cult following across the globe – made evident in …
Say Psych: Album Review: Los Mundos – Calor Central
Los Mundos slithers out of Monterrey, Mexico like a psychedelic serpent ready to draw blood. Undulating along riff-heavy guitar lines and fuzzed-out bass, Luis Angel Martinez and Alejandro Elizondo cut a path through psychedelia that pulls from sources as diverse as the Beach Boys, the Jesus and Mary Chain, and horror legend H.P. Lovecraft, creator of …
Say Psych: Album Review: Paisiel – Paisiel
Paisiel is the enigmatic name given to this very special project that features the exceptional talents of Portuguese drummer/percussionist and sonic sculptor João Pais Filipe and the German saxophonist Julius Gabriel. This week they release a self-titled three track instrumental offering on Rocket Recordings that is certain to tingle the senses. Based on an individual …
Say Psych: Album Review: Juleah – Desert Skies
Juleah is the musical project of Austrian songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Julia Hummer. Having adopted the name in 2011 when she began posting covers online, Juleah has quickly progressed into something much more than a solo cover project. Following the self-release of Juleah’s self-titled EP on SoundCloud in 2012, she released her debut album, Shimmering Road, …
Say Psych: Album Review: The 39 Clocks – Next Dimension Transfer
The 39 Clocks are one of the most magnificent bands ever to have emerged from Germany being considered one of the nation’s best bands of the 1980s by German pop boffin Diedrich Diederichsen. The legendary duo from Hanover broke every rule in the music business, without exception and above all, with attitude. The very appearance of The Clocks …
Say Psych: Album Review: Fumaça Preta – Pepas
Fumaça Preta are back with their long awaited third album, Pepas which has been released on Bristol’s Stolen Body Records. They bring together elements of tropicalia, psychedelics, fuzz funk, musique concrete, acid house, radiophonic electronics and numerous African, Brazilian and Latin rhythms. The band started as a studio experiment when Alex Figueira, a Portuguese-Venezuelan producer …
Say Psych: Album Review: A Place To Bury Strangers – Fuzz Club Session
For over a decade Brooklyn’s A Place To Bury Strangers have been dealing in pure sonic destruction. Famously lauded as the loudest band in NYC, their thunderous noise-rock has seen them pick up a cult following and shatter many unsuspecting eardrums across the globe. With no release or live show like the last, APTBS have continually twisted their malevolent sonic …
Say Psych: Album Review: TAU – TAU and The Drones of Praise
TAU are back with their new LP TAU and The Drones of Praise which was released last week. It follows on from 2016’s debut TAU TAU TAU which was released on Fuzz Club Records. TAU are steered by Sean Mulrooney but have an open-door policy for recording which has resulted in the capturing of some of …
Say Psych: Album Review: Nero Kane – Love in a Dying World
Nero Kane is the nickname of Marco Mezzadri, a songwriter and musician already known in the Italian underground scene and aiming to make a mark on the rest of the world with his debut LP Love in a Dying World. Previously, Kane released Lust Soul under the name NERO in 2016 but has changed tacts …